Argentina’s David Nalbandian was first thought too injured to participate in the Stockholm tie, but after a successful insertion in the Saturday doubles, Nalbandian played the hero in the fifth and deciding singles match, defeating Sweden’s Andreas Vinciguerra to put Argentina into the Davis Cup quarterfinals. Swede Robin Soderling forced a fifth match by defeating Argentina’s Leonardo Mayer in straight sets in the first Sunday singles. Argentina will travel to Russia for the quarterfinal encounter.

Andy Roddick expressed his interest in one day being captain of the U.S. Davis Cup team.

Despite the controversies and suggestions about changing Davis Cup, I’ve always enjoyed the unique features Davis Cup brings to tennis.

According to the AP, Sampras said while playing an exhibition at the ATP event in San Jose that he’s interested in working for the USTA with young tennis players in the Los Angeles area.

David Nalbandian is back with a win.

WARNING: NOT FOR DIE-HARD FED-FANATICS!

Notes: Should be called the Spanish Open with four Spaniard leading the seeding and five seeded total.

While 2009 was an exciting year for tennis, and many players enjoyed their best seasons ever, some players did not play as well as they could have, due to injury, mental fatigue, or other, more unusual factors.

With everyone doing top 10 lists of the decade or the year, I decided to take a slightly different approach.

‘THOSE GUYS ARE WEAK’ — Roger Federer is no longer even close to the No. 1 ranking, and is even in danger of losing his perch at No. 2, but took time out to slam the unimportance of Brit Andy Murray climbing from No. 4 to No. 3 for the first time (next Monday) on the ATP Rankings: “It’s nice but is there a big difference between being No. 3 and No. 4 in the world? I don’t think so,” Federer told the BBC. “It’s about being No. 1 or No. 2, being the top seed, being the top dog. That’s what it’s about for Andy.”…